In a message dated 09/23/1999 1:37:51 PM Central Daylight Time,
Jim_Hill@chsra.wisc.edu writes:
<< Personally, I have no problem with vintage racing under an "8/10ths" rule -
that's about as fast as I can go anyway :-)
>>
Amici:
8/10ths or not, Jim Hill had his TR6 going pretty fast at ROAD AMERICA over
this past week end. The TRIUMPH group done us all proud.
LOTS of excitement.
'Fireball Dan' Buxner started on fire in one of the practice sessions, and
then was first TR home in the Group TWO feature, with Uncle Jack in fast
pursuit.
Don Brick had almost every aspect of his TR4 completely torn down and
reassembled over the week end. Some parts several times. He lost is
overdrive, and while he could not solve his lack of power over 4500 rpms, no
DNF.
Kent Howard had a serious spin coming out of turn 13. He handled it very
well, and is wiser as the result.
I had the most serious spin of my career coming out of the kink (106-108 mph
in the T-bolt). I spun in my own coolant. After three good events in a row,
our compression leak is back on the Thunder Bolt engine. Two and one half
times around, with concrete barriers on both sides, I never left the road.
Mark it down. If I have nine lives...one of them is gone.
Saturday night I took the T-bolt home. Brought out Ole Blue, and ran the TR3
in the USRRC Race and the Group Two Feature Race on Sunday. That is the nice
thing about being an hour and a half from the track. It is an adjustment
though, to practice two days in the T-bolt (pretty sophisticated by Triumph
standards), and then RACE in my old TR3, with no rack and pinion steering,
etc., etc. Old Blue is tired, but reliable. I never got under 3:13. I
started both races last because I did not qualify in the car. It was fun
moving up thru the traffic. The three original Beady Eye TRs were running
like a NASCAR freight train for a while. That was fun. I got to watch Don
Brick and Bob Wismer dice, like they have been doing for years.
IRP in three weeks.
Bill Dentinger
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